Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 8,246 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Alexa Canady (1950- )
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Dr. Justina Ford (1871-1952)
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Ionia Rollin Whipper (1872-1953)
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Chris Rock (1965- )

Explore Global African History

Orishatukeh Faduma
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(1919) Orishatuke Faduma, “Not Failure But Low Aim is Crime”
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Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (1939-2018)
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The Fireburn Labor Riot, United States Virgin Islands (1878)
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Sistema de Castas (1500s-ca. 1829)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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John McWhorter, “Celebrate the Triumph of Ordinary Black Americans”
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Juneteenth: The Growth of an African American Holiday (1865- )
Virginia Planters, Black Slaves, and Tobacco
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The Evolution of Slavery in Virginia, 1619 to 1661
Migrant Mother Holds Her Baby, Maricopa County, Arizona, 1940
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In Praise of Mayme Clayton: Images of the African American West

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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